UPDATE: Inmate dies at Kamloops jail; third in less than a year

KAMLOOPS - Another inmate has died at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre, making it the third to occur in a year.

Details surrounding the case are still being confirmed, but Dean Purdy, chair of corrections and sheriffs services component of the B.C. Government and Service Employee’s Union, confirmed the death occurred Monday night, Sept. 21.

Purdy could only confirm a few details about the case. He says the death is being investigated internally and by the RCMP. A coroner's inquest is likely to follow, he says.

"Any time there is an in-custody death it's very unfortunate," he says.